Pre Check app

• Interactive screen
• Education and information
• Reminders

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• collect medical information? No
• require a login? No
• have password protection? No
• have a privacy policy? Yes
• require internet access? No

✔ Interactive breast model with 9 abnormal findings. The phone vibrates when you touch an abnormal area.

✘  The app doesn’t help women make an informed choice about whether to self-screen/self-examine, with no education about the risks and the evidence arguing against the practice.¹

✘ The guidelines have shifted to “breast-awareness” over regular breast examination. There is no mention of breast-awareness and the differences in these approaches. Breast-awareness basically signifies being sensibly alert.²

✘ There are several omissions in the breast self-examination instructions:

• No instruction is given about how to examine systematically (normally in a circular or linear fashion). Instead it just says “circular motions”.
• There is no axillary tail in the breast model in the app (sometimes breast tissue extends into the armpit. This is called the axillary tail of the breast).
• No instruction on hand movements with palpation (normally finger pads of 3 middle fingers).
• No instruction on how exactly to inspect visually first. It just says “look”.
• No instruction on feeling for lymph nodes.